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The problem is that we have a power imbalance. The police used to uphold the mandate ‘to protect and to serve’. Now it seems that they’re out to get you.

Until about five years ago, I loved and trusted cops. I thought of every officer as my personal hero.

Then I moved to TX and I met good guys and bad guys, all wearing the uniform. At one point, the bad guys would be weeded out by their own. Now they protect one another, even when there is wrongdoing. The two women in TX who were strip-searched on the side of the road... who went to jail? This man will sue and he will win, but these cops will still be on the beat. (They did it to another guy a year ago. They’ll do it again.)

Police are not behaving with honor. They are not holding one another to the code.

It used to be that the average, law-abiding citizen really had nothing to fear. Now, we’re all threatened. All the time.

The cops have to get their houses in order. STOP protecting the bad apples. STOP seeing the average citizen as a liar and a criminal and see them as people.

Hell, that’s what you’re asking of us, right here, right now. See the cops as human beings.

But that is NOT how they see and treat us.